Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came to New York and wrote one of his most significant works, Poet in New York.

what: Lorca: Así que pasen cien años (1998). Directed by Javier Rioyo.
This beautifully crafted and rich documentary (nominated for an Emmy Award in 1998) celebrates Lorca’s life through a look at his friends, his music, and the cultural and political movements that influenced his work. In Spanish with English Subtitles.
when: Wednesday, May 14, 7pm
where: Instituto Cervantes
more info: http://ow.ly/kwL1W

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Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a Cleveland-born, Montreal-based writer, editor, and Portuguese-English translator. Her honors include a Hopwood Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil, and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre; she was a 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her original poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in places including Best New Poets 2014, Narrative, Guernica, BOMB, The Common, Asymptote, and Exchanges. She holds an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University.

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